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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!

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posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:14 PM by Joe Dimino to history | 61 comment(s)

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!

The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.

Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...

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1. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy posted on September 13, 2003 at 04:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Thanks, Joe. That really helps!

2. MattB posted on November 13, 2003 at 02:54 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I concur with John. This thread has made the project much easier for me to navigate.

In case Joe missed it in the other thread, however, can we please add the Negro League thread to the "Important Links" area?

3. OCF posted on February 13, 2004 at 04:06 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Joe D.: This page, useful as it is, doesn't need a discussion thread. I notice that in the Primer Studies area, tangotiger sometimes closes off discussion of an item, leaving only the header and its links. I you know how tangotiger does that in his area, perhaps you could do that to this page.

4. Swedish Chef posted on May 17, 2004 at 02:35 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Now this is at the top of the Blogpen section all the time, not so good.

5. Joe Dimino posted on July 11, 2010 at 03:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Found and fix . . . this thread was archived, I've opened it back up . . . is this an issue with other threads as well?

6. Joe Dimino posted on July 11, 2010 at 03:04 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Yeah it looks like it. None of the links work, and the links only go back to 1958. This is not good.

7. Joe Dimino posted on July 11, 2010 at 03:31 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

OK, this is a start . . . looks like we've got the links through 1971 back and the links for 1971 works.

I don't see any threads after the integrity of the ballot thread listed though . . . not sure if I was only able to unlock the threads I posted? Still digging . . .

8. Joe Dimino posted on July 11, 2010 at 04:09 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

OK, I think all of the links are working for the results, ballots and discussions now. Please let me know if a link is broken, I didn't click them all.

Also, I was only able to open up the threads I posted, not the ones John set up . . . working on getting that fixed as well. Please let me know if there are any other issues.

Thanks!

--Joe

9. deputydrew posted on August 10, 2010 at 02:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'm just a guy that likes reading some of the HoM threads. I saw a comment somewhere else that suggested the HoM had, for some reason, died. Did something happen, or are you guys just taking a nice summer vacation?

10. DanG posted on August 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Perhaps when Joe is over his SABR convention hangover we'll get going again.

11. Joe Dimino posted on October 28, 2010 at 10:18 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Hey guys . . . I guess I'm finally over that hangover . . . We should probably talk about scheduling the 2011 election. I've been emailed there was some discussion, should I set up an thread for it?

12. Joe Dimino posted on November 04, 2010 at 08:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Just a heads up, everything that had been archived is now open for business again. I stickied the important links threads as well. I think we've got it all covered, but if something needs tweaking, please let me know. Thanks!

13. Joe Dimino posted on November 04, 2010 at 08:11 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

1081 threads overall. Guess we've been pretty busy over the last decade. January 8, 2002 is our birthday.

14. Paul Wendt posted on November 06, 2010 at 10:05 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

continued from "Ben Taylor"(!).

At the moment "Important Links" also appears in the sidebar and that link takes me here.

Probably the list of important links should combine the best of both versions by including near the top all four of
(Links to discussions of) Negro Leagues Stars, Latino Stars, 19th Century Players, and 20th Century Players.

P.S. The nearly empty page Tetelo Vargas is missing from the Latino Stars directory.

15. Giants fan since 66 posted on January 01, 2012 at 08:17 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I am new to your site, as a long time fan I love what you guys have done. I have always felt there were way too many guys in the HOF that didn't belong there and a few that did belong there that weren't ( love the fact that Minnie Minoso is HOMer, long overdue to be put in hall). Keep up the good work!!

16. DL from MN posted on January 02, 2012 at 12:06 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Looks like we need to edit this thread to include MMP links.

17. Joe Dimino posted on December 12, 2012 at 05:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I cannot figure out why the 2012 election results link does not work. It's driving me insane, any ideas?

DL, definitely need to do that. It's just busy work, not all that hard to do, assuming the URLs are somewhat uniform. This year I will go back to making the results URL's simple, i.e. 2013_results . . . not having the full description in the URL.

18. Joe Dimino posted on December 12, 2012 at 05:04 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Thanks for the love Giants fan since 66, glad to have you around.

19. Joe Dimino posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:06 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It has to be some kind of a bug in the URL with the ... in there. I literally copied and pasted from the link in post 70 of the 2012 results thread, which works. The main post must not be able to handle the ... that's the only thing I can think of.

So for now, the 2012 results are linked here :-)

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!

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